Seidensticker, John
Fellowship Advisor Inactive National Zoological Park staffSeidensticker, John
Fellowship Advisor Inactive National Zoological Park staffBehavioral ecology of carnivores; wildlife management; conservation biology; landscape ecology and conservation; measuring effectiveness of conservation practice.
Geographic Focus
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., University of Montana
- M.S., University of Montana
- Ph.D., University of Idaho
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Tracking changes and preventing loss in critical tiger habitat. Science Advances. 2. 2016
- Biodiversity resilience in the Central Indian Highlands is contingent on maintaining and recovering landscape connectivity: the tiger as a case study. Regional Environmental Change. 16:167-179. 2015
- Dutta, Trishna, Sharma, Sandeep, Maldonado, Jesús E., Panwar, Hemendra Singh, and Seidensticker, John. 2015. "Genetic Variation, Structure, and Gene Flow in a Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) Meta-Population in the Satpura-Maikal Landscape of Central India." PloS One, 10, (5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123384. 2015
- Winter Ecology of the Amur Tiger Based Upon Observations in West-Central Skihote-Alin Mountains 1970–1973, 1996–2010. Journal of Wildlife Management. 78:177-178. 2014
- Sharma, Sandeep, Dutta, Trishna, Maldonado, Jesús E., Wood, Thomas C., Panwar, Hemendra Singh, and Seidensticker, John. 2013. "A highly informative microsatellite panel for individual identification and sex determination of jungle cats (Felis chaus)." Conservation Genetics Resources, 5, (3) 863–866. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-013-9873-0. 2013
- Dutta, Trishna, Sharma, Sandeep, Maldonado, Jesús E., Wood, Thomas C., Panwar, H. S., and Seidensticker, John. 2013. "Fine-scale population genetic structure in a wide-ranging carnivore, the leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) in central India." Diversity & Distributions, 19, (7) 760–771. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12024. 2013
- Sharma, Sandeep, Dutta, Trishna, Maldonado, Jesús E., Wood, Thomas C., Panwar, Hemendra Singh, and Seidensticker, John. 2013. "Forest corridors maintain historical gene flow in a tiger metapopulation in the highlands of central India." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280, (1767). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1506. 2013
- Dutta, Trishna, Sharma, Sandeep, Maldonado, Jesús E., Wood, Thomas C., Panwar, Hemendra S., and Seidensticker, John. 2013. "Gene flow and demographic history of leopards (Panthera pardus) in the central Indian highlands." Evolutionary Applications, 6, (6) 949–959. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12078. 2013
- Sharma, Sandeep, Dutta, Trishna, Maldonado, Jesús E., Wood, Thomas C., Panwar, Hemendra Singh, and Seidensticker, John. 2013. "Selection of microsatellite loci for genetic monitoring of sloth bears." Ursus, 24, (2) 164–169. https://doi.org/10.2192/URSUS-D-13-00001.1. 2013
- Sinks as saviors: Why flawed inference cannot assist tiger recovery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110:E110-E110. 2013
- Sharma, Sandeep, Dutta, Trishna, Maldonado, Jesús E., Wood, Thomas C., Panwar, Hemendra Singh, and Seidensticker, John. 2013. "Spatial genetic analysis reveals high connectivity of tiger (Panthera tigris) populations in the Satpura–Maikal landscape of Central India." Ecology and Evolution, 3, (1) 48–60. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.432. 2013
- Dutta, Trishna, Sharma, Sandeep, Maldonado, Jesús E., Wood, Thomas C., and Seidensticker, John. 2012. "A reliable method for individual identification and gender determination of wild leopards (Panthera pardus fusca) using non-invasive samples." Conservation Genetics Resources, 4, (3) 665–667. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-012-9618-5. 2012
- Laurance, William F., Carolina Useche, D., Rendeiro, Julio, Kalka, Margareta, Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Sloan, Sean P., Laurance, Susan G., Campbell, Mason, Abernethy, Kate, Alvarez, Patricia, Arroyo-Rodriguez, Victor, Ashton, Peter, Benítez-Malvido, Julieta, Blom, Allard, Bobo, Kadiri S., Cannon, Charles H., Cao, Min, Carroll, Richard, Chapman, Colin, Coates, Rosamond, Cords, Marina, Danielsen, Finn, De Dijn, Bart, Dinerstein, Eric, Donnelly, Maureen A. et al. 2012. "Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas." Nature, 489 290–294. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11318. 2012
- Enhancing Conservation, Ecosystem Services, and Local Livelihoods through a Wildlife Premium Mechanism. Conservation Biology. 27:14-23. 2012
- Wikramanayake, Eric, Dinerstein, Eric, Seidensticker, John, Lumpkin, Susan, Pandav, Bivash, Shrestha, Mahendra, Mishra, Hemanta, Ballou, Jonathan D., Johnsingh, A. J. T., Chestin, Igor, Sunarto, Sunarto, Thinley, Phuntsho, Thapa, Kanchan, Jiang, Guangshun, Elagupillay, Sivananthan, Kafley, Hemanta, Pradhan, Narendra Man Babu, Teak, Seng, Jigme, Karma, Cutter, Peter, Aziz, Md Abdul, and Than, Utin. 2011. "A landscape-based conservation strategy to double the wild tiger population." Conservation Letters, 4, (3) 219–227. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00162.x. 2011
- Counting India's Wild Tigers Reliably. Science. 332:791-791. 2011
- Collaborations and partnerships are essential to sustain wild tiger populations 2010
- People and wild felids: conservation of cats and management of conflicts 2010
- Saving wild tigers: a case study in biodiversity loss and challenges to be met for recovery beyond 2010. Integrative Zoology. 5:285-299. 2010
- A Place for Tigers? Review of Alan Rabinowitz's Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in the Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed. Bioscience. 58:990-991. 2008
- Gratwicke, Brian, Mills, J., Dutton, A., Gabriel, G., Long, B., Seidensticker, John, Wright, B., Wang, You, and Zhang, Li. 2008. "Attitudes toward consumption and conservation of tigers." PLOS One, 3, (7) E2544. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002544. 2008
- Captive-born tigers and the fate of wild tigers: Response to Jiang and colleagues. Bioscience. 59:726. 2007
- Gratwicke, Brian, Seidensticker, John, Shrestha, Mahendra, Vermilye, K., and Birnbaum, M. 2007. "Evaluating the performance of a decade of Save The Tiger Fund's investments to save the world's last wild tigers." Environmental Conservation, 34, (3) 255–265. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892907004079. 2007
- Review of Richard Ellis's Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine.. Conservation Biology. 21:559-560. 2007
- Dinerstein, Eric, Loucks, Colby, Wikramanayake, Eric, Ginsberg, Joshua, Sanderson, Eric, Seidensticker, John, Forrest, Jessica, Bryja, Gosia, Heydlauff, Andrea, Klenzendorf, Sybille, Leimgruber, Peter, Mills, Judy, O'Brien, Timothy G., Shrestha, Mahendra, Simons, Ross, and Songer, Melissa A. 2007. "The Fate of Wild Tigers." Bioscience, 57, (6) 508–514. https://doi.org/10.1641/B570608. 2007
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Book
- Rabbits: The Animal Answer Guide 2011
- A Future for Wild Tigers 2008
- Giant Pandas 2007
- Predators 2007
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Chapter
- Foreword - Wild tigers forever in India: Dr. K. Ullas Karanth's vision and the science that supports i. xiii-xxviii. 2011
- Smith, James L. David, Simchareon, Saksit, Simchareon, Achara, Cutter, Peter, Gurung, Bhim, Chundawat, Raghunandan, McDougal, Charles, and Seidensticker, John. 2011. "Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest is Essential Tiger Habitat." In The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia. McShea, William J., Davies, Stuart James, and Bhumpakphan, Naris, editors. 237–248. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2011
- Seidensticker, John, Yoganand, K., and Johnsingh, A. J. T. 2011. "Sloth Bears Living in Seasonally Dry Tropical and Moist Broadleaf Forests and Their Conservation." In The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia. McShea, William J., Davies, Stuart James, and Bhumpakphan, Naris, editors. 217–236. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2011
- Seidensticker, John, Gratwicke, Brian, and Shrestha, Mahendra. 2010. "How many wild tigers are there? An estimate for 2008." In Tigers of the world: the science, politics, and conservation of Panthera tigris. Second ed. Tilson, Ronald Lewis and Nyhus, Philip J., editors. 295–299. New York: Elsevier/Academic Press. 2010
- Wikramanayake, E., Dinerstein, Eric, Forrest, J., Loucks, C., Seidensticker, John, Klenzendorf, S., Sanderson, E., Simons, R., Heydlauff, A., Ginsberg, J., O'Brien, T., Leimgruber, Peter, Songer, Melissa A., and Bryja, G. 2010. "Roads to recovery or catastrophic loss: How will the next decade end for wild tigers?" In Tigers of the world: the science, politics, and conservation of Panthera tigris. Second ed. Tilson, Ronald Lewis and Nyhus, Philip J., editors. 493–506. New York: Elsevier/Academic Press. 2010
- Gratwicke, Brian, Shrestha, Mahendra, and Seidensticker, John. 2010. "Save The Tiger Fund's grant making strategy for recovering wild tiger populations." In Tigers of the world: the science, politics, and conservation of Panthera tigris. Second ed. Tilson, Ronald Lewis and Nyhus, Philip J., editors. 189–199. New York: Elsevier/Academic Press. 2010
- Sanderson, E., Forrest, J., Loucks, C., Ginsberg, J., Dinerstein, Eric, Seidensticker, John, Leimgruber, Peter, Songer, Melissa A., Heydlauff, A., O'Brien, T., Bryja, G., Klenzendorf, S., and Wikramanayake, E. 2010. "Setting priorities for conservation and recovery of wild tigers: 2005-2015. The technical assessment." In Tigers of the world: the science, politics, and conservation of Panthera tigris. Second ed. Tilson, Ronald Lewis and Nyhus, Philip J., editors. 143–161. New York: Elsevier/Academic Press. 2010
- Seidensticker, John, Lumpkin, Susan, and Shrestha, Mahendra. 2010. "The status and recovery of Amur tigers in comparison to other tiger subspecies." In The Amur Tiger in Northeast Asia: Planning for the 21st Century. 41–46. Vladivostok, Russian Federation: Russian Academy of Sciences. 2010
- Tiger range collapse at the base of the Himalayas: a case study. 305-323. 2010
- Ecological and intellectural baselines and saving lions, tigers, and rhinos in Asia. 98-117. 2008
- Seidensticker, John. 2008. "Foreword." In Never Forgetting: Elephants and Ethics. Wemmer, Christen M. and Christen, Catherine A., editors. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2008
Contact
Location
- National Zoological Park Academic Department
